License-display device for vehicles.



L v. PELTON. LICENSE DISPLAY DEVICE FOR VEHICLE S.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1 1916.

Patented Dec. 18,1917.

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LI CENSE DISPLAY DEVICE FOR VEHICLES. APPLICATION FILED MAYI, 1916.

1,250,644 Patnted Dec. 18,1917.

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,msafiee j 7 Application filed May 1, 1916. Serial No. 94,730.

LICENSE-DiSELAY Dams- '03 VEHICL S. I

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, LEWIS of New York, have invented-new and useful Improvements in License-Display Devlces for Vehicles, of which the following is a llght'such as, the electrielam'p 6,v and as shown herein the latter is -disposed within I specification.

This invention relates to license display devices for-vehicles the object in VlBW being to produce an article of" the class referred'to .in which the characterson the license plate I will bemoreeasily distinguished during the daytime and which may be seen at several times the distance at night time as compared with the ordinary illuminated license display device of the presenttype now incommon use.

A further object I the parts of the device in such manner that they may be-readily assembled and disconnected in order to substitute anew license plate and a new glass when occasion demands.

A further object of the invention i's-to combine atail lamp with the casing of--thef display device in such manner that the tail lamp and the license display plate will be simultaneously illuminated by means of a single lamp or light producing element.

With the above and other objects in view,

the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as herein described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a face view of a combined license number display device and tail lamp embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view'of the same.

Fig. 3 is an end view thereof.

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view through the same showing the manner of forming the display plate.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical transverse section showing the manner of connecting and mounting the main parts of the device. a

This device includes broadly. a license 7 number casing designated at A, and a lamp 3, and a back wall made up of a fiat upright box designated at B. In the preferred em- Specification of Letters Ifatent, v Dec;

7 V. Pnil'ron, a v citizen of the United States, residing at Dansville, in the county of Livingston and State in view is to constructcentral '4 preferably parallel the "walls Theuinner surfaces of said panels are polished or plated so as to reflect the rays from, an internally arranged source of ahole in'the top wallil so that it risespartly above the same as indicated in Fig.i-3.-.

" Theq casing also includes a .front wall 7 1 which. constitutes the license number plate, I j and which, as shown,'is'formed withopenings. 8p extending through the same and shaped to represent letters,'numerals and the like,,the plate 7- being punched and shaped by means of. dies so asto punch the -openings..8 and'at the same time press the metal outwardly around the margins of said openings as clearly indicated in Figsaliand 14: thereby providing reinforcing or. stiflening flanges 9 which: project from the outer or exposed face of the plate. During'the same pressing operation, thei-marginal portions of the plate are shaped to form a surrounding bead '10 of concavo-convex shape in cross sectlon the rounded or convex face thereof be1ng disposed toward the exposed surface of the plate as clearly indicate d. in

the drawings, 7

Angle iron strips '11 are united to the casing A adjacent to the front edge thereof as shown in Fig. 5 and the, plate 7 is secured thereto by means of bolts or screws 12 which are threaded into nuts 13 on the rear sides of j the angle strips 11, the nuts 13 being preferably brazed or otherwise permanently united to the strips 11.

In rear of the plate 7 there is placed a panel l l of'translucent' material such as white opal glass, ,the same being-held in place between the plate 7 and a protecting gasket 15 behind which is a metal stop strip 16 secured by fasteners 17 to. the outside walls of the'casing, 1. l/Vhen the plate 7 is removed, the panel 14 may'also be removed, thus enabling a new panel 14 to 18 whose axis is h niaontal, its rearend l be substituted for one which has been being closed and its front end carrying a colored glass not necessary to llustrate and describe; This casing stands above the top of the number casing already described, and

in order to support it therefrom I. have used.

a tubular element or neck'l9 whose lower endis united with the topwall 1 of the case ing A aroundtlie hole therein, and Whose upper end is united withthe wall or, casing 18 of the lamp box around a properly shaped hole also formed therein; The neck may be cylindrical, but I preferably flare it upward at the front as best seen in Fig 3, so that theopening in the bottom of the lamp box a casing l81is of'ample size for the admission of rays of light. As seen in this view, the

position ofthe lamp or bulb'6 is such that ized for both of the casings. ris-shown as provided with a socket 20 enabling a new bulb'or lamp to be substituted the rays of liglit'from said lamp may be util- The lamp 6 of light so that all of the openings in the, plate? are equally illuminated throughout.

- The device as a whole is constructed in themain of sheet metal of such a character that it may be operated. upon by dies for'the purpose herein above stated. Connecting bars or strips 21 are provided at places Where they; are needed to connect theinner portions of the" characters to the outer portions thereof as indicated in Fig. 1. As a Whole the device may be economically manufactured and placed on the market atwabout the same price as the present" day license numben display devices.

I claim A device of the class-describedcomprising a casing including va license 'displ'ayplate constituting its front-Wall, lJWO' upright end Walls, a rear wall made up of afcentral panel parallel with the front Wall and end" panels diverging from the extremities of said central pane'l tothe rear edges ofsaid end Walls, and bottom and t-opawalls;v the latter having a central openingya tubular neck Whose lower end1s securedaround' said opening-and whose front inclinesfor- Ward and upwardya horizontally disposed cylindrical lampbox having an-opening in its bottom communicating With the upper end of said neck;.a lamp; socket in the: rear -wall' of: sald casing, and: a lamp carried. by

said socket, projected -partly' through said casing opening, and directing itsvrays into both" the casingaandfthe' lampibomfor the purpose set forth.

In testiniony whereof I: atfix my signature.

LEWIS v. PELTON.

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